Today's Featured Books— Literary Fiction and Creative Nonfiction

"Refreshing, invigorating, and deeply humbling." -Amazon review. May the poetry in this book serve as a reminder that we are visitors here. One day each of us will let go of everything and everyone we love. It is this powerful and humbling truth which makes us truly appreciate life. Let us use this life as the grandest opportunity to explore, strengthen, heal, grow, love, give, create, and courageously forge ahead in service to others. FREE - SHOP NOW / 

"Ann S. Epstein illuminates with laser-like precision a family torn apart by obsession, and the choices that reassemble it." -Michael Andreon. An ambitious Emm Benbow convinces his wife to enter the Great Stork Derby, a contest which offers a sizable cash award to the woman who has the most babies between 1926 and 1936. But soon his ambition turns into a ruthless obsession and addiction, and despite Izora’s efforts, he is disappointed by his large family, and alienates himself from children. From $5.99 SHOP NOW / 

"At once deeply personal yet pulsing with the universally familiar aches of love and longing" ~Tim Hillegonds, author. The Angle of Flickering Light explores what it means for a girl to run recklessly into womanhood, clinging to any version of love, making temporary homes for herself again and again, before finally discovering what it means to become rooted. 4.8 Stars, 77 Reviews on Amazon. Silver Medal for 2021 Readers’ Favorite Award. Honorable Mention for 2021 Paris Book Festival Award. From $2.99 SHOP NOW / 

"D’Angelo addresses a very human need to know where we came from and why we do what we do. Her writing style immediately pulls you into the story." ~Barbara Conrey, USA Today Bestselling author. Rachel seeks fulfillment and clarity of identity by going on an ancestry mission to reveal her Italian immigrant grandpa’s secretive past, meanwhile trying to repair her damaged romantic relationship and her own mental health. Humor and drama all in one! 4.76 Goodreads rating. From $2.99 SHOP NOW / 

"...both grounded and enchanting." -Lydia Kang. This reflective collection of real and imagined poetry and prose, speculates on an erratic childhood, the uncertainty of adolescence, and the reality of parenthood, through flashbacks of love lost and found​. "...a maestro when it comes to making every word count. Evocative, powerful, and full of tension." -Samantha Vérant. From $2.99 SHOP NOW / 

"Here you will find a voice you can trust and a music to live by." -Roger Mitchel. The lyric gift of Chumki Sharma’s poems in this collection crumples convention with a whimsical soft touch. Her drug works quickly in poem after poem. The collection shows us an entire universe of disappearances and leaving in poem after poem as the poet leaves the circus, the gallery, the forest, the lover. She is the poet of escape. From $2.99 SHOP NOW / 

A Best Books of 2020 selection by Kirkus Reviews: "A promising new literary voice." Love and redemption collide in a New Jersey beach town as narcoleptic ex-playwright Donatello Marcino confronts his past culpability in the disappearance of a 4-year-old girl. "Captures the spirit of the Jersey Shore...filled with wry observations and the unexpected smart and funny things people say." -Marcy Dermansky, author of The Red Car. From $3.99 SHOP NOW / 

"These mesmerizing vignettes possess an uncanny power" -Devorah Baum. The interrelated short prose pieces in Ben Berman’s Then Again explore a life outside of chronological order, bounce back and forth between foreign adventures and domestic routines. One moment we’re in a Mommy and Me yoga class, the next we’re gutting a goat in rural Zimbabwe. "This collection captivates and uplifts" -Michelle Elvy From $2.99 SHOP NOW / 

A "thoughtful journey towards mental health and self-actualization." -Booklife Reviews. Good-hearted Phil leaves his successful career for an isolated mountain cabin after reading a mysterious passage online. He meets sages from the Himalayas, rescues damsels in distress, soars to the clouds, and falls in love within forty miles of his cabin. A violent incident exposes his dark past, and an unthinkable tragedy threatens to plunge Phil into a hellish forever isolation. From $2.99 SHOP NOW / 

A look at World War II through the eyes of four young people who come of age during the war. The author scrutinizes various forms of discrimination from misogyny to anti-Semitism, and examines forgotten aspects of the war, such as the exchange of German for American prisoners in Sweden and the legacy of American POW camps. Five Stars "Must Read" from Reedsy: "The well-researched novel provides insights into little-known secret missions during World War II in Europe and brings to light the internment in America of thousands of German and Italian Americans, many of whom were citizens by naturalization or birth." From $4.99 SHOP NOW / 

“A story about America and the kind of people who helped to forge this great nation.” -Kirkus Gold Winning author D. C. Gilbert. 91 Amazon reviews, 4.8 stars out of 5. All five brothers enlisted. Only two came home. Their mother’s hopes were disrupted by great losses. Yet she lived out four more decades with resilience. “Triumph and tragedy in the pages, and there’s also hope.” -William R. Ablan, pen name of Richard L. Muniz. “Heart tugging.” -Van Harden, author and radio personality. From $2.99 SHOP NOW / 

"Pick up this book and eat it, I mean love it, I mean eat it." -Daniel Handler. In Meg Johnson’s third full-length collection, Without: Body, Name, Country, strange experiences become familiar, and familiar experiences become strange as a human body, a sense of self, and an entire nation all teeter toward the verge of destruction. "The language distorts the familiar into new but recognizable realities." -Anne Champion From 2.99 SHOP NOW /